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I get the desire to have your entire community living on a single site. But the days of One Platform to Rule Them All are long behind us, if that particular beast ever even existed. Is it more trouble to go to Twitter for news and links, Tumblr for images and memes, [[Dreamwidth]] for [[meta]] and discussion, [[AO3]] for fic? Maybe so, but I find that playing to the strengths of each site is making me happier overall. If that means I drift away from some elements of my fandom community, so be it -- I miss some people who I don't see nearly as much as I used to, but I hope to enjoy the time I do spend interacting with them all the more.

I get the desire to have your entire community living on a single site. But the days of One Platform to Rule Them All are long behind us, if that particular beast ever even existed. Is it more trouble to go to Twitter for news and links, Tumblr for images and memes, [[Dreamwidth]] for [[meta]] and discussion, [[AO3]] for fic? Maybe so, but I find that playing to the strengths of each site is making me happier overall. If that means I drift away from some elements of my fandom community, so be it -- I miss some people who I don't see nearly as much as I used to, but I hope to enjoy the time I do spend interacting with them all the more.

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Linking to a reblog because the OP deleted the post. The respondent here words things more strongly than I would have, but as you might guess I largely agree. The fact that the OP can delete but the reblogs live on forever is a whole other can of worms with Tumblr's design, but getting into that would be a different post. <ref> {{source| url = http://owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/733808.html | title = owlmoose | Tumblr, fandom, and setting expectations }}  </ref>}}

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Linking to a reblog because the OP deleted the post. The respondent here words things more strongly than I would have, but as you might guess I largely agree. The fact that the OP can delete but the reblogs live on forever is a whole other can of worms with Tumblr's design, but getting into that would be a different post. <ref> {{source| url = http://owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/733808.html | title = owlmoose | Tumblr, fandom, and setting expectations |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200729005459/https://owlmoose.dreamwidth.org/733808.html |archivedate= 2020-07-29 }}  </ref>}}

* [[The Three Laws of Fandom]]

* [[The Three Laws of Fandom]]